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Last Notes npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo But i thought you were a dog? npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Spam is addressed by fees npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo It is true that pruned nodes can’t use electrum. But what you said was that tx with large op returns won’t work with electrum. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Spam makes you feel bad is not the same as spam is bad. Full bitcoin blocks is a tradeoff: fees & security vs. cost of storage forever. Prunable UTXOs does keep ram usage lower for longer which will allow devs more time before they have to come up with a clever caching strategy…bip110 UTXOs with spam will stay in Utxo set and are not provably unspendable like op return spam. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo That’s simply untrue. Like objectively false. If you mean you do not want to prune, I hear ya. But whether you store spam or morally righteous numbers in your chain is irrelevant to running electrum. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo If you’re unaware of why stuffing spam in prunable transactions is preferable to where spammers will place spam otherwise (either on bitcoin or bip110coin), then you don’t have a good technical grasp of the heart of the discussion. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo You realize your argument is vacuous: you’ve changed the direction of the required proof. I am arguing that bip110 makes bitcoin technically worse and you are now requiring discussion of how spam makes bitcoin better…bypassing the discussion of how 110 doesn’t stop spam/ordinals. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo I’m glad you don’t believe the censorship bip110 is insisting to apply on legitimate financial transactions is real. It would mean your heart is bad. But my claim still stands. I can send bitcoin scripts later. Boarding a plane now. ✈️ npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo I’m glad you agree with me about censorship. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Except that I can’t spend my coins because of my shunned bitcoin script. My complex security needs can’t be adddressed on bip110-coin due to script limitations. I am censored on that chain. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo It’s not clear to me that RC/O really believe you earn your way to heaven, in whole or in part, by works. The Bible is very clear that you should question the reality of your own faith if you have no works. And I think that’s what RC/O’s documented beliefs really are, but obfuscated by emphasis on faith producing works to the point that people create ritual and ceremony around works that others over time have come to believe are requirements rather than natural extensions of faith. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Can I require you and everyone else to go back to the old days when block size limit was set in bitcoin.conf and we must use 50kB blocks and only allow new utxos to be pay to pubkey…not pkh. Oh, and priority transactions of greater than 1 bitcoin-day destroyed get included in blocks first without a fee. I would like that again please. Thx! npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Nobody likes spam. It’s bad. It’s wasteful. It makes bitcoin cost more to use as money. Before the blocksize limit, spam/dust attacks could have brought down the network. If CSAM could bring down bitcoin, it would have happened already. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo I can’t imagine many life altering decisions of eternal consequence actually happen in under 90 seconds. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Main point: don’t let better be the enemy of good enough, especially when it comes to forcing people off your network. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo From the article: “By failing to bring developers under its fold, the Gopher project fell victim to what is often referred to as forking, i.e. splintering into many options instead of settling on one standard approach. Forking can be effective, but only after enough support has been created that the forked technology can stand on its own, without the help of those working on the technology from which it forked. Netscape is a significant case of later breaking from standards leading to forking, in the form of HTML extensions. [Newman] Microsoft's Internet Explorer also jumped in with its own nonstandard extensions. But this happened after the Web had already gained enough inertia to have a strong user and developer base.” npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Main lesson: don’t kick nodes off your network everytime a user upgrades their client. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo “In order for complex systems (like Gopher or the Web) to perpetuate themselves, they must strike the right balance between exploring new options and exploiting their past success. [Axelrod and Cohen] That is, they must make new advances to fill new niches that arise without changing so radically that they can no longer take advantage of their successful track record. The short answer to the questions the questions posed in this paper is that the Web did this right, and Gopher did it wrong. Of course, claiming this is far different from being able to say exactly why Gopher failed, just as saying someone got checkmated does not provide the most fulfilling explanation for why someone lost a game of chess.” See https://www.ils.unc.edu/callee/gopherpaper.htm npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Changing how people are allowed to use bitcoin is as bad as what happened to gopher protocol. Haven’t heard of gopher://? There’s a reason and it has to do with breaking people’s use cases. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo You also assume op return has no legitimate financial use cases, but that’s not true. It could be useful in zero knowledge proofs and verifying multiparty computation results and other self-constructed contracts without requiring protocol changes to support them. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Yes npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo US Amazon. CAD makes sense. Don’t get screwed on memory…prices will fall in a few years. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo A better patch analogy would be the fundamental cryptographic functions. These have a security shelf life. I don’t really care at all about op_return as far as relay policy: that doesn’t change the consensus in any meaningful way. But disabling op codes which are already used for monetary transactions seems like an over reaction to the magnitude of the spam problem. CSAM is obviously a red herring. Anyone conceding that it matters must then explain why it doesn’t after finding CSAM on chain. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo You live in a good place. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo That is a very long time…strong work! npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Is that a joke? Cheaper cooler (less heat) and faster devices available for half that price. https://image.nostr.build/68670b2e1e73a0b42005b76c2b4829e2451a51f7158595eb3fd2a30773866126.jpg npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Have you ever had codex review code produced by Claude? I have 4 vibe coded projects, each starting with a different version of Claude’s latest model…and having one model review another turns up a lot of bugs. I wonder about codex vs. Opus…fable doesn’t really exist…you get so little usage one can’t just use it routinely. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo It is folly to equate knowledge of consequences with torture. We are talking about logic, love, and coercion. Let me tell you an equally logical and non-coercive axiom that you can accept or reject: there exists a God named Snort; if you fail to acknowledge his great Snortiness by snorting 5 times daily with your nose pointed towards him (that is, towards the sun), he will remove your testicles & more for eternity where you will be surrounded by beautiful women but be unable to engage. Is that coercive? Or is it merely an “if, then” axiom? While I’m not advocating you become a devoted follower of Snort, I am asking you to think better than your post above. Engage your stoic side and think. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Torturing you until you choose to love him is perhaps the situation you’re trying to smash in here like a square peg into a round hole. Torture would be coercion. Letting people know what God says will be the consequences of their choices is part of the belief spectrum. Consequence isn’t coercion. If you can’t choose to love God before you die, you risk perpetuating that separation after death too. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo What is the humidity? 99 could be perfect or awful and I’m guess awful. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo No, I do not believe I get to make the rules. But you aren’t pointing out a flaw in the logic at all. You can rationally and logically decide the threat of eternal separation from God is an empty one. Just because the rules bring a large measure of gravity to your choice does not mean you aren’t free to choose. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Did you think you got to make the rules? npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo I was in Mexico at a Satoshi roundtable pre-pandemic sometime and one of the well known technical attendees graciously posed the blockchain-embedded CP question and answer to me almost in one breath…letting me cogitate for just enough seconds to realize any government could embed data and declare the entire project to be illegal due to illegal numbers…and thus block data is obfuscated on disk to keep virus scanners from being triggered… At the end of the day, we must agree that numbers aren’t illegal: it’s what people do with those numbers that could be illegal. This is no different than cars, cash, guns, or pharmaceuticals. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo I just saw this from @npub1xts…kk5s Ordinals are now BIP-110 ready! https://image.nostr.build/1f4206a0e816f3a4019acd0a0230560a424820a1a49246a2dc80508d994c5d9d.jpg npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo BIP-110 is a beautiful and lovely idea. Nobody likes spam and everyone wants there to be a free way to stop spam. And I would love to live in a world where clever rules can stop clever people from breaking the intent of the rules. But it’s simply not possible. Spam will always be there. Even in the most simple of bitcoin transactions, I could transfer 0.0000 xxxx and have 10,000 different xxxx that I could use to store data for under $10. That’s a bit of an overstatement because there is a dust limit that serves to increase cost of such bitcoin transactions (to reduce spam, all transactions must be above something like 500 sats). Oh, look, this is the oldest example of bitcoin fighting spam by pricing! Pricing in the only way to exclude use cases we disagree with. Why? Because there will always be a price at which any data can be stored in the blockchain! This is why bip110 supporters have to gaslight people into this “continuous” data theory that makes one way of encoding data special or different than another. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo These are excerpts from my half of a conversation with my 15 year old nephew who asked a similar question: Let me tell you a story. Once upon a time there was an unmarried king in search of a wife. The King held ball after ball and invited all the princesses From the nearby kingdoms, and then eventually all the kingdoms there were at the time. He looked at every princess and still found nothing. Then one day at another fancy ball, a peasant girl, the baker’s daughter, caught his eye as they prepared for the festivities. He was captivated and wanted to get to know this beautiful girl. But he knew that if he approached her as king that his position would be quite imposing and would preclude him from truly getting to know her: she would feel pressured to do whatever he asked. He wanted her to choose and to be free to choose to love him. So he dressed up as a peasant boy and took apprenticeship with her father, so he could be close to her. Over the course of his apprenticeship, he won her heart and hand. After they were married, he did not start his own bakery, but instead revealed himself as king. You ever wonder why you can’t prove the existence of God? If proving the existence of God was possible, how could you possibly choose to love Him? It would not be a choice, it would be coercion. And God doesn’t want to coerce you. He wants you to choose Him. This is why you have free will. This is why I think “creation” scientists trying to “prove God created creation” is kinda stupid as a matter of definition. There will always be two equally logical and reasonable ways to interpret just about anything: one that makes perfect sense if you believe in a personal and loving God that wants to know you and one that makes perfect logical sense in a godless universe ruled by chance and statistics alone. At the end of the day, logic is required for both science and faith; but faith relies on personal experience while science relies upon repeatability of measurements. Intent and love are logical but not measurable. Science can not ***ANSWER*** the God question. Another common misunderstanding is that God allows evil to exist. This is untrue. It’s a consequence of allowing humans to have free will. If any of this was illogical it would be worthy of rejecting. But just because something makes sense, that’s not proof that it’s true. At the end of the day, it’s about personal experience. Either God loves you and wants a relationship with you (and hence with every person) or He doesn’t want a relationship with you or He doesn’t exist. Those are the only options. Only you can answer the relationship question and you can only answer it for yourself. Anyhow, rest assured that the questions you have are the same questions everyone has. And the answers have been the same for thousands of years. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo This checks out! npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo The Christian take on this is to ask God to give you the desires of your heart. This isn’t to say “God give me what I want,” but rather “God put in my heart the desires you want for me.” npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo So many people expressing support for BIP-110 are both non-technical and very certain about their support. This should not be. Anyhow, happy violent overthrow of the government Remembrance Day! npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo These bips are a slippery slope. And for what? To make sure only moral use of bitcoin exists (spam doesn’t harm bitcoin any more than genuine use). But many are willing to submit to the moral authorities because of fear and technical non-understanding and brainstem reflexive universal hate for CP. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo I am a little bit worried about what BIP-112 has in store but I’m downright terrified of BIP-113. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo But lightning allows spam too and must be shut down. The 300 kb block size limit luke promotes makes more sense. BIP-111 is staged to require BIP-110 first, so arguing it before BIP-110 deploys is moot. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Interesting observation: with STRC at $83.67 and 12% dividend payments, the effective yield if STRC regained par at 1 year would be roughly 30%, which is close to the power law slope of about 37%… Remember, at lot of people selling STRC are doing to to buy MSBT… npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo I don’t hold a significant percentage of my wealth in anything other than Bitcoin. But I’ve been around since July 2010, so that isn’t saying much. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo FTFY: facts > feelings npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo I do admire your heart. It is in the right place. Just need a little course correction by allowing facts to be persuasive. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo I think it fitting your a BIP-110 tard. All feelings and no brain. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Only you can know for certain…but the proof so far is above. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Then you don’t think about much either. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo It’s no different than preventing creating of legit taproot outputs like anti-kidnapping wallets that BIP-110 does. At the end of the day, removing other people’s rights to support and enforce bitcoin as only simple money is wholly justified. It doesn’t matter who we hurt or if the future of bitcoin as programmable money is discarded: our beliefs matter more than market forces. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Communication is hard. Getting people _you_ know to understand truth is different from speaking truth. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo I disagree. Money has two different definitions and one cannot make a meaningful statement until he can recognize when he must define the term money and can state the critical difference between the two commonly held definitions of money. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Your cat is gay? npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Saylor has been a net good for bitcoin, convince me otherwise? Also, those that think Saylor has been a net negative, did you feel this way when he was temporarily in positive return territory? Should being temporarily negative mean anything other than being appropriately aggressive? If he was never negative, that means he left something on the table. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo You know more people than I have ever met! npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo BIP-111 is better than 110. Far stricter. 300 kb block size limit. Segwit addresses get one chance to send funds to approved address types that are less spammable and no new segwit outputs can be created. This of course means lightning channels can only be closed, not opened, but it’s only temporary. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Such slavery works best with inflation… npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Oh but you see that’s different…somehow….because of reasons. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo I totally recall the intense open public debate Russians had with their government back when Russia opened the war bombing apartment complexes…oh, wait, yeah that didn’t happen…you’d be killed in Russia for speaking up like that against the ruler. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo I finished undergrad astrophysics and math in 2002…and eventually went to medical school…I’m glad to hear I wasn’t way off base! npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo What do _you_ mean by legacy? To me it means the 100 private keys at a time, pre-HD seed phrase days. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo If I’m reading eq 1 correctly, the math they cite says magnetic field strength increases sharply as distance increases…which is false. AI slop? Or am I making a mistake. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Boobs are about 50% of the reason I use this protocol. Ok, that’s tongue in cheek but still… npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo I thought it was only me! npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo The size invariant desirability is supported by non-correlation of size and substance, fibroglandularly speaking, by xray. But this assume desirablilty is based on productive capacity, which is a guess. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Have you ever thought about why? It doesn’t make sense, if you think about it. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Topical steroids are a miracle of modern medicine. I sometimes have to write for prescription steroids for my wife because n account of these vermin. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo I am today years old and it is still unclear to me why men like boobs. I don’t deny that all men do, universally, without exception... It’s more about the why… Zooming out, how could it make sense? Is it somehow reproductive success related? But that doesn’t explain, I suppose, the undeniable universal desirability of all sizes. Or maybe there is some hierarchy of desirability I’m unaware of. I dunno, I am an N of 1. Interestingly, the external appearance vs. the amount of fibroglandular tissue actually present as evident by xray and ultrasound have almost no correlation. So it doesn’t make too much sense from a reproductive point of view to be too picky, especially regarding sheer size. Humans are strange creatures…but very reproductively successful…and a surprising amount of society can be explained through the reproductive lens. But as I leave the conventional reproductive years, I am only left with more unanswered questions about attraction… Ok, that’s probably my deepest thought for the day. Cheers all! npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo But why not both? npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Violence is necessary but often unnecessarily applied. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Good point. We did not know what we had. Nobody did. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Good point. It was closer to nothing than something back then! npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo That bear felt far worse than any other. I’m still trying to understand why it felt that way…it must be a combination of personal factors, magnitude, and duration. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo I was there then. I had almost no money, but my ~$40/mo (or maybe every 2 weeks) DCA paid off well. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Amen to that npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Legend npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo No very easily, no…but believe it or not, there is a science behind identifying the typewriter responsible for a particular typed document! npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo It’s good STRC fell…more coins for the rest of us! npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Regarding this, there can be no doubt or serious disagreement. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo I could be wrong, but I suspect there are more glorious pictures out there… npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Leverage is by definition risky and with that risk potentially more rewarding. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Yes. And it was glorious. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo I can’t decide if bitcoin backed loans perpetuate the old system or is a key phase of entering the new system or is completely orthogonal to system transition. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo My biggest fear is that people will perpetuate the old system, as @npub1s05…eyhe would call it, by using Bitcoin as collateral…it’s hard to reconcile what I think is an inherent conflict between perpetuating the paper money system by using bitcoin as collateral for a loan and hoping fiat debasement continues… I want to be wrong here…but it doesn’t seem like just sell bitcoin if you want to buy something is the right answer either. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Here is a good question to ponder: why has the “money” the world uses like USD been so successful despite proof of debasement? Is proof of debasability somehow a desirable property of “money” in the modern world? The answer might be yes! Taking a loan backed by collateral creates more of the lent and makes the collateral more scarce while the trade is “on.” Repaying the loan reverses this relationship. People are more willing to borrow “money” when armed with proof of debasement or at least the possibility of debasement. Nobody borrows bitcoin long term. That would be ruinous. Maybe somehow debasement as encouragement to take risks and work hard is a useful feature of “money” itself? This is a bit like arguing that stealing is ok, and obviously stealing is wrong, but is it really stealing when people have a choice to hold dollars or Bitcoin? I mean, I still think it is stealing despite the choice, but I suppose the theft isn’t a pure loss for society: by stealing from the poor to fund the sometimes profitable ventures of the future rich, more goods and services enter the economy…or so they say. Proving this theft buys more productivity than having a fair standard measure of value has never been done — in large part because there never was a good money before. The desire to borrow and lend is largely about getting more collateral, not more “money” at the end of the day, but people think “rich” means “money” and I’d argue that’s not at all the case. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Well done again at @npub167n…zu3r @npub1cn4…3vle ! My daughter loved your talk. Thx bro npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Never hurts to consider the possibility that the person you are considering just lost their mother. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo It is unfortunate that the only way to settle property disputes is by killing. But humanity has been doing this for a long time, killing for land. Every nation does. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Almost to Prague! One more flight! npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo I’ll have to google it. Thx for the tip! Claude code is currently heavily subsidized. For $200/mo it’s all you can eat if you have a job that’s not coding and use Claude heavily in your free time. I made https://quantoshi.xyz/ and a suite of command line tools for wallet management/backup (use at your own risk) https://github.com/bg002h/mnemonic-toolkit and fixed a ton if things I had wrong with my home Pfsense router, Blockstream satellite monitoring/listen/download Linux service files, and my home vpn / screen sharing setup…for $600. That’s only roughly 2x as much one would pay for Pfsense tech support alone! npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo All those bitcoin backed loans at $120k are looking vulnerable right now. I know they say you buy Bitcoin at the price you deserve, but I also think it’s true that you sell Bitcoin at the price you deserve. Don’t get out over your skis folks! That said, doing so now is by definition less risky than doing so in October. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo I don’t have a graphics card npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo AI is exactly what Linux needs to reach more users. I don’t mean Linux needs to bundle AI services for users to use AI from the OS, I mean many users will get much more from Linux with an AI assistant to help them answer the unending slew of problems Linux throws at the user with minimal context. Claude code is helping me fix my service files and installed dependencies for stuff I didn’t realize was clearly broken. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Yup. The vastly disproportionate extension of credit relative to money by definition means that money _could_ rather suddenly become much more valuable (that equivalently means assets like stocks and bitcoin could rapidly go down in price). But because credit is a smoothed integral of liquidity over time…very low liquidity for an extended period of time will cause credit to collapse, restoring the balance between credit and money. The only question is what will serve as money when and if that happens? Right now, it’s clearly not bitcoin and the only non-recursive assets held by central banks are gold and some mortgages. Ironically, our protection against long lasting low liquidity is government indebtedness. The more money they pay in interest, the more money floods the economy, the easier liquidity becomes and the higher the interest rates go, leading to more interest payments and more money flooding the economy, etc. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo That’s good. Nobody does anyhow npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Imagine how rich you would be if you took the opposite of Peter Schiff’s advice on Bitcoin 15 years ago. Some people (like Peter) can’t permit their brain to consider the possibility that gold is continuing to be demonetized (notice gold is now only rarely correlated to liquidity whereas it used to define it) and Bitcoin is being monetized (notice that Bitcoin used to be correlated to nothing and now strongly tracks liquidity). Is it possible Bitcoin will correlate with global credit like gold does (note that central banks buy gold and central banks are the foundation for credit; essentially, gold still serves as collateral for currency — money by definition is the collateral for currency!). This implies a valuation model for gold and Bitcoin. Do the math. Assign a probability. Allocate accordingly. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Have fun staying poor. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Petty criminals steal the cash you have on you. Professional criminals steal from your bank account. Elite criminals steal your bank. And government criminals steal the very essence of cash itself, affecting everyone. Bitcoin fixes this. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo This is much much deeper than abusing power by exploiting pseuodmedical reasoning… It is much worse than that. They had to destroy the economy while there was no debt ceiling to get enough money created to steal first. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo There was a time when there was real benefit to doing terrible things like quarantining an entire household due to a contagious illness (common in the pre-polio vaccine era)…sacrificing income of one household to benefit the neighborhood…but applying it society wide (for an unstoppable disease) was folly from day 1…but it was not obvious at the time as it had been generations since we as a society thought through the proper decision making pathway for use of quarantine. Our great grandparents would have made a different choice because they were familiar with the proper game theory of using quarantine orders.